Thank you so much and Im sorry to have missed a lot o fyou guy's comment before. I was also going through something as I made this - so this piece was sort of a way to vent it out. Glad you could find something in this too^^

Beautiful, simply beautiful!
On a side note, the right scene reminds me of moments from "Poet Anderson", desperation and feelings of non-belonging, and long sleepless nights...
The lighting in the left one kinda gives me memories of the finale of death note , but really, it has some deep feelings, like if it's a beautiful day, but you can no longer enjoy it, you're dying inside ...

Good work on the piece . However, after looking at this, as well as your other works on PJ, I think I can offer some advice that I've heard from some masters.

You can cut down on the dithering. I takes a lot of time, and the effect, when overdone adds less than if you left most of the piece undithered. Most of the time pixel artists will leave large portions in a single color and use specific features to indiciate what the rest of the surface is, or use selective color around the areas where the shadows change to indicate a rough, smooth, round, or flat surface. If it's a flat surface, you shouldn't be dithering it, since the dither will indicate grit, or roughness. In the case of the theme, the left side of the image shouldn't really have any dither at all - it would look better if it had a very clean look, while the image on the right would have select dithering here and there to get across the idea of grit to contrast the clean.

You can look at FrankieSmileShow here on PJ: http://pixeljoint.com/p/4628.htm?sec=icons&pg=1 . His earlier works had a lot of dither for a few years, but later on (about half-way through his gallery there), he learned to stop over dithering when someone showed him how much the image would be improved without it.

Dithering, and even over dithering can have its uses as style choice. However, it's a costly choice, and the next time you look at a pixel art piece and think "wow that looks amazing," it's likely not going to have much dither in it.